The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

